“Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F—k with Him?’”:  Trump's War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal  —  With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.  —  For the first time in Donald Trump's presidency, the West Wing soap opera appears …

Pruitt Had a $50-a-Day Condo Linked to Lobbyists.  Their Client's Project Got Approved.  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company's pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt …

Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government  —  (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …

The president attacked my reputation.  It's time to set the record straight.  —  Jill McCabe, an emergency room pediatrician, is married to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.  —  I am an emergency room pediatrician and an accidental politician — someone who never thought …

Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018.  It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

Trump Transforms Immigrant Caravans in Mexico Into Cause Célèbre  —  MEXICO CITY — It has become a regular occurrence, particularly around the Easter holiday: scores or even hundreds of Central American migrants making their way north by foot and vehicle from southern Mexico.

Markets That Climbed the Trump Bump Are Tumbling Down From It  —  Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb.  —  March  —  April  —  S. & P. 500  —  Percentage change from Jan. 26 peak … Feb.  —  March  —  April  —  The Trump Bump is becoming the Trump Slump.

If Trump walks away from the Iran deal, Tehran will win  —  Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute, served in senior national security positions in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations.  —  I was not a fan of the Iran nuclear deal.

Trump administration, seeking to speed deportations, to impose quotas on immigration judges … The Trump administration will pressure U.S. immigration judges to process cases faster by establishing a quota system tied to their annual performance reviews, according to new Justice Department directives.

Conservative Criticism of Trump Is Not Deluded  —  A response to Rich Lowry  —  One of the more significant frustrations of the Trump era is the lack of precise terminology for the debates required of it.  One such term is “Never Trump.”  It is vague enough to include a broad spectrum …

Mueller Probe Into U.A.E. Influence Broadens  —  Special counsel's latest inquiry into the activities of a U.S. ally suggests he is looking more closely at foreign influence in Washington  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked questions about the work of a private consulting firm …

Roger Stone's Claim of a 2016 Julian Assange Meeting Draws Scrutiny  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked about an email during grand jury testimony  —  The special counsel investigating alleged links between Trump campaign associates and Russians is looking …

Why Xi's lifting of term limits is a good thing  —  Eric X. Li is a Shanghai venture capitalist and a trustee and chairman of the advisory committee of Fudan University's China Institute.  —  SHANGHAI — Western media and the Chinese chattering classes have been in an uproar since China's …

Trump's Governing Just Like Obama With Congress Gridlocked  —  President has signed more executive orders than predecessor  —  He's griped to confidants about congressional inaction  —  President Donald Trump has entered what his predecessor called the “pen-and-phone” phase of his presidency …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounds alarm on New Deal rollback  —  Washington (CNN)Deep in a seemingly obscure Supreme Court case on Monday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded an alarm for liberals: The New Deal may be under attack.  —  The conservative majority is undermining worker protections from the 1930s …

The EPA is rolling back fuel efficiency standards  —  Weakening greenhouse gas targets for cars and trucks will help the dirtiest manufacturers while hurting the cleanest.  —  The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back one of the biggest, most impactful environmental regulations of the Obama era …

Record Numbers of Female Candidates Competing in 2018 Elections  —  Unlike the past, these women hopefuls unabashedly push their gender; two appear in campaign videos breast-feeding their babies  —  WASHINGTON—The field of Democrats vying to run against GOP Rep. John Faso in upstate New York …